Improvement in railway-lanterns



- M. M- BUCK. vRailway Lantern.l

No. 201.741. Patented March 26, 1878,.

f NLPIERS, PHOT HER, WASHINGTON. D. CA

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

MYBO-N M. BUCK, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IM PROVEM ENT IN RAILWAY-LANTERNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 201,741, dated March 26, 1878; application led February 16, 1872i.V

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MYRON M. BUCK, of the city of St. Louis, and Stateof Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Railway-Lanterns, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My improvement consists in providing the bottomor base of the lantern with openings to admit the foot to rest through to hold the lantern in place when both hands are in use.

The drawing is a perspective view, showing my improvement applied to a lantern-bottom.

A ismthe lamp, and B is a usual couplingange around Vthe same. C is the bottom or base, upon which the lantern stands. The bottom C is of the usual form, consisting of sheet metal wired at the edge, and is pro- 'Letters Patent, is-

A lantern having a bottom, C, provided with foot-openin gs D D, substantially as shown and described, for the purpose set forth.

MYRON M. BUCK.

In presence of SAivn.. KNIGHT, GEO. H. KNIGHT. 

